The Wild Boy of Aveyron, a feral child caught in 1798, showed several signs of autism; the medical student Jean Itard treated him with a behavioral program designed to help him form social attachments and to induce speech via imitation.
This study was designed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the Step Up program, a MRF cognitive-behavioral program designed to improve participants' mental and physical well-being by reducing depressive symptoms, promoting smoking cessation, and increasing physical activity.
Given the importance of knowledge about the direction of causation as a basis for policies and programs designed to effect behavioral change, the scarcity of in-depth research on this subject is surprising and problematic.
State and federal programs designed to bring behavioral health professionals to medical underserved areas, such as the National Health Services Corps, play a vital role in connecting communities to these health care resources, but recruitment may be limited by insufficient supply.
These labels included, but were not limited to, "the age and social background of the juvenile," "the availability of programs designed to treat the juvenile's behavioral problems" and "the juvenile's present intellectual development and psychological maturity".
Consequently, these problems require a combination of social, familial, behavioral, and educational interventions provided through infant development programs or family preservation programs designed to change the ecology of the child and family.
Explore psychological/behavioral smoking cessation programs designed to eliminate triggers and urges to smoke.
Thirty-four adolescents with epilepsy participated in a group cognitive behavioral therapy program designed to enhance their level of psychosocial functioning.
